In linear narratives the past is written and fixed. These encourage a sequential worldview where self development and memory are arbitrated and filtered by a progressive and unrepentantly current window of experiences1.
A more useful chronology would revisit the past as a mass, with a timeless overview of what is useful2 – revisiting the under-developed and forgiving those elements of potential.
Notes:
1 People are more Markovian than we generally acknowledge.
2 This is somewhat in debt to "Consolations", where the nearer to his god one gets, the wider the scoop of "now" becomes, until we finally reach a black hole deity who views the whole of time as one. But Boethius' deity is right, now and forever; "boiling" chronologies have a meta-timeline, where they revisit and revise. Ironically, in death Boethius took the opposite route: fracturing into multiple timelines where he was varingly clubbed to death, had his head crushed by ropes until his eyes popped out, was strangled, or beheaded with a sword. Full strength to him for imagining that his god saw such fancies eternally, and was pleased.